The President of the Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, received a congratulatory message from his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, on the occasion of the 72nd anniversary of the outbreak of the glorious liberation revolution.
According to the message he posted Account of the Presidency of the Republic On the Facebook platform, the French President expressed his best wishes to President Tebboune and to the Algerian people, on the occasion of this historic anniversary.
Macron’s congratulations came at a time when the colonial memory still casts a shadow over Algerian-French relations, given the colonial era that lasted 132 years, from the French invasion of Algeria in 1830 until the restoration of national sovereignty in 1962, and the crimes, massacres, displacement and confiscation of lands and wealth that accompanied it.
Algeria is also still demanding the settlement of the memory files, first and foremost Recognition of colonial crimes and compensation About the damage caused by the occupation, in addition to addressing the archive file and the French nuclear explosions in the Algerian Sahara.
It is noteworthy that French President Emmanuel Macron acknowledged, during his visit to Algeria in 2017, that French colonialism had committed crimes against humanity.
Macron said in an interview with:Al-Shorouk NewsIn February 2017, when he was a presidential candidate, he stated, “Colonialism is part of French history. It is a crime, a crime against humanity, it is a true barbarity, and it is part of this past that we must confront by apologizing to those against whom we committed these practices.”
In October 2021, Macron acknowledged that the crimes committed by the French police in Paris against Algerian demonstrators were “crimes that are unjustified for the republic.”
He also officially acknowledged the responsibility of the French army for the torture and assassination of the national leader, Ali Boumendjel, in 1957 (retracting the suicide account), as well as his admission that France had established an “organized torture system” during the liberation revolution.
